A barcode scanner?
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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Yes. Need to quickly scan book barcodes and generate list of books
Buy a barcode scanner. They are only as fast as you can scan things unless you want to build a machine that you put stacks of books into and it scans them for you..but you'd still need a barcode scanner.
Would you prefer to use a phone or a handheld scanner and a PC? What kind of phone or PC?
The barcode scanner app I use has a "Continuous Scan" mode where it will save the barcodes immediately and allow you to continue scanning - you could look for a barcode app on with this feature for whatever device you're using to scan
And you didn't mention the app name. What's the point? :-D I'm interested too.
Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.barcodescanner
F-Droid: https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/com.example.barcodescanner/
GitHub (has screenshots of the app and a list of supported barcode types): https://github.com/wewewe718/QrAndBarcodeScanner
Honestly, just pick up any USB barcode scanner, open a spreadsheet up in Excel or Google Sheets, and go to town. It will go pretty quickly.
BookWyrm has a barcode scanner on its UI, which redirects you into the scanned book title (if it's registered in the "databases" BookWyrm pulls from)
Bunch of wireless barcode scanners on Amazon but it looks like all they do is scan the barcode and dump the value to your device, there's no product lookup or anything like that.
If that's all you need... $30 to $40.